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On August 26, 1861, one hundred volunteers met at Camp Wood and formed Company A.

On August 26, 1861, one hundred volunteers met at Camp Wood and formed Company A.

Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry.

The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022Where can a walk take you?

For more than eighty years, Faulkner criticism has attempted to "e;see all Yoknapatawpha,"e; the fictional Mississippi county in which the author set all but four of his novels as well as more than fifty short stories.

First published in 1975.

First published in 1991.

Closely examining Jacques Lacan's unique mode of engagement with philosophy, Lacan with the Philosophers sheds new light on the interdisciplinary relations between philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies.

A comprehensive and engaging overview of English language dictionary-making from the first monolingual English dictionary to the current day.

'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.

Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels.

Crucible of the Civil War offers an illuminating portrait of the state's wartime economic, political, and social institutions.

This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland.

One method of American territory expansion in the U.

India and the Traveller: Aspects of Travelling Identity, a collection of essays on travel writings related to India, focuses on the evolving persona of travelers to India as well as Indians journeying to other lands or within India.

First published in 1980.

Provides an accessible overview of the achievement of Edward Gibbon (1737–94), one of the world''s greatest historians.

This collection presents-through the medium of translated sources-a comprehensive guide to the development of hagiography and the cult of the saints in western Christendom during the middle ages.

Jane M.

During histhirty-eight-year career as a military officer, Henry Clay Merriam received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Civil War, rose to prominence in the Western army, and exerted significant influence on the American West by establishing military posts, protecting rail lines, and maintaining an uneasy peace between settlers and Indians.

Personal Souths, a collection of twenty interviews with famous southern writers, will mark the fiftieth anniversary of The Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated to southern studies.

The sinister "e;jungle"e;that ill-defined and amorphous place where civilization has no foothold and survival is always in doubtis the terrifying setting for countless works of the imagination.

This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.

A history of the series of American Civil War battles fought at a town outside of Richmond, Virginia.

This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry.

An overview of the main literary schools, authors and works in modern Russia and the Soviet Union.

From October 1864 to November 1865, the officers of the CSS Shenandoah carried the Confederacy and the conflict of the Civil War around the globe through extreme weather, alien surroundings, and the people they encountered.

A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.

What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously?

Biblical poetry, written between the fourth and eleventh centuries, is an eclectic body of literature that disseminated popular knowledge of the Bible across Europe.

A detailed and fully illustrated account of the Richmond Campaign, covering the strategies and tactics employed.

A compelling narrative of one of the Civil War's most pivotal campaigns in which Federal armies drove Robert E.

Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Escott has composed ten concise but deeply learned and incisive biographies of key Americans in the years leading up to the Civil War.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS 2021The Food Almanac is a seasonal collection of recipes and stories celebrating the joy of food - a dazzling, diverse mix of memoir, history, short stories and poems alongside recipes, cooking tips, menus and reading lists.

What would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics, engagement, disaster, or catastrophe?

The Civil War transformed American life.

After the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Protestants worried that King Charles II might favour religious freedom for Roman Catholics, and many suspected that the king was unduly influenced by his Catholic mistresses.

"e;This remarkable publication provides a captivating and brilliantly executed series of conversations among seventeen most impressive historians.

The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and one that has typically been told on a grand scale.

Love and Depth in the American Novel seeks to change how we think about the American love story and how we imagine the love of literature.

The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals.

In this lucid and original study, first published in 1972, Ralph Berry discusses the ten comedies that run from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night.

Melville's Other Lives is the first book-length study on The Piazza Tales-Herman Melville's only authorized collection of short fiction published in his lifetime-and the first book to explore the rich and varied subject of embodiment in any published collection of Melville's stories.

This timely addition to Civil War history shares the stories of 25 unique military organizations, showing how past and future collided in the first modern war.

This Companion addresses an exciting emerging field of literary scholarship that charts the intersections of postcolonial studies and travel writing.

Critics agree in the abstract that "e;metafiction"e; refers to any novel that draws attention to its own fictional construction, but metafiction has been largely associated with the postmodern era.

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Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of yadam stories, the Kimun ch’onghwa (“Compendium of Records of Hearsay”).